UPPSC LT Grade English subject exam paper 29 July 2018 (Answer key)

71. The four humours in Ben Jonson’s tine were
(a) love, hate, laughter and sorrow
(b) choler, yellow bile, melancholy and black bile
(c) tear, blood, bile and saliva
(d) blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile
Show AnswerAnswer -D

72. Who is sick of ‘self-love’ in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night?
(a) Malvolio
(b) Sir Toby Belch
(c) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(d) Olivia
Show AnswerAnswer -A

73. The sleep-walking scene occurs in
(a) King Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Othello
(d) The Merchant of Venice
Show AnswerAnswer -B

74. Where does the Third Act in Arms and the Man take place?
(a) Library
(b) Garden
(c) Army Camp
(d) Battlefield
Show AnswerAnswer -A

75. Choose the correct forms of the verbs given in the brackets :
It is very pleasant (wake) up and (hear) the rain (beat) on the windows.
(a) waking, hearing, beat
(b) wake,  hearing, beat
(c) to wake, hear, beating
(d) to wake, to hear, beat
Show AnswerAnswer -C

76. Dryden’s all for Love is a retelling of shakespeare’s
(a) Antony and Cleopatra
(b) The Merchant of Venice
(c) Macbeth
(d) Twelfth Night
Show AnswerAnswer -A

77. Dryden’s All for Love is written in
(a) free verse
(b) blank verse
(c) rime
(d) heroic couplet
Show AnswerAnswer -B

78. Identify the correct sentence.
(a) She entered into the room without knocking at the door.
(b) She entered in the room without knocking at the door.
(c) She entered the room without knocking on the door.
(d) She entered into the room without knocking on the door.
Show AnswerAnswer -C

79. Fill in the blank :
Do you ever send ___ for things rather than buying them in shops?
(a) up
(b) out
(c) off
(d) through
Show AnswerAnswer – c

80. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :
List-I                     List-II
A. Euphemism 1. A striking opposition or contrast of words or sentiments made in the same sentence
B. Antithesis 2. Description of a disagreeable thing by an agreeable name
C. Epigram 3. A statement that is made emphatic by overstatement
D. Hyperbole 4. A brief pointed saying frequently introducing antithetical ideas which excite surprise and    arrest attention
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 3 2 1 4
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 2 1 4 3
Show AnswerAnswer -D

81. Who has described Bacon as “the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind”?
(a) Macaulay
(b) Alexander pope
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Hugh walker
Show AnswerAnswer -B

82. Who is the essayist who called his essays ‘dispersed meditations’?
(a) A. G. Gardiner
(b) Bertrand Russell
(c) Joseph
(d) Francis Bacon
Show AnswerAnswer -D

83.who wrote under the pseudonym ‘Alpha of the Plough’ ?
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Francis Bacon
(c) R. L. Stevenson
(d) A. G. Gardiner
Show AnswerAnswer – D

84. The word ‘Elia’ is associated with
(a) Thomas De Quincey
(b) William Hazlitt
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Francis Bacon
Show AnswerAnswer – C

85. How much money does the narrator of the short story, The Luncheon have when the story opens?
(a) Sixty Francs
(b) Eighty Francs
(c) Seventy Francs
(d) Ninety Francs
Show AnswerAnswer – B

86. Who is credited for pioneering the Historical Novel?
(a) Laurence Sterne
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Walter Scott
(d) Henry Fielding
Show AnswerAnswer – c

87. The phrase ‘two inches of ivory’ is used for the plots of
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Jane Austen
Show AnswerAnswer – D

88. Who is Pip’s tutor in London in Dickens Great Expectations ?
(a) Harold Pocket
(b) Walter Pocket
(c) Herbert Pocket
(d) Matthew Pocket
Show AnswerAnswer – D

89. Fielding’s Joseph Andrews parodies
(a) Gulliver’s Travels

(b) Tess
(c) Pamela
(d) Oliver Twist
Show AnswerAnswer – C

90. “Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.”
The above statement occurs in
(a) Joseph Andrews
(b) Lord of the Flies
(c) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(d) Animal Farm
Show AnswerAnswer – C

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